Today, third part, this time ESX(i) host has 10 pNIC’s (1Gbps) on Standard Switches (vSS) Scenario #1 – 10 NIC’s (1Gbps – 2 x quad port adapters and 2 on-board ports) – standard Switch for each type of traffic In  scenario I have to design network for 5 different type of traffic. Each of the traffic has different vLAN ID which will help to utilize all NIC’s for more than one traffic, optimize pNIC utilization and have network secured. mgmt...

During last couple of weeks I have been actively browsing VMware communities, trying to solve users technical problems. many questions and misunderstanding was related with ESXi or ESX networking configuration, networking best practice or how to set up properly networking on ESX or ESXi servers.  I decided to post recommendation about VMware vSphere4 networking configuration and vSphere networking Best Practice. The fundamental rules in...